{"id":11403,"date":"2023-11-12T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T21:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aniu.org.uy\/sin-categorizar\/is-artificial-intelligence-really-a-threat-to-engineers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T21:59:35","slug":"is-artificial-intelligence-really-a-threat-to-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/news\/is-artificial-intelligence-really-a-threat-to-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is artificial intelligence really a threat to engineers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the framework of the International Virtual Colloquium, organized by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and the Academy of Engineering of Mexico, the Dr. Jorge Gr\u00fcnberg<\/a>representing the National Academy of Engineering of Uruguay (ANIU) reflected on the possible impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on future engineering jobs.<\/p>\n

In his presentation, entitled \u201cEquity and Diversity: The New Engineering. Social and Economic Warnings and Trends,\u201d which took place on November 6, Dr. Gr\u00fcnberg noted that \u201chistorically, it has been quite rare for a task to be completely automated and for a profession to disappear altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, although in previous industrial revolutions the balance was always positive, \u201chow worried do we have to be now?\u201d questioned the academic, who is rector of ORT Uruguay University.<\/p>\n

New threats<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe came from a stage where the demand for IT jobs, for example, was always higher than the supply. And yet, now, in the last few months we are finding that generative artificial intelligences can produce on average 50% of the code automatically,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Gr\u00fcnberg, \u201cthere is a threat of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is true, but not because there will be a lack of jobs (because there will not be a lack of jobs)\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat is the skills shortage, not the jobs shortage. The main challenge for our societies will be to overcome the skills gap, the gap between people\u2019s current skills and those required to fill new jobs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were able to reconceptualize work in terms of problems to be solved, and this was the value to be added (instead of a sequence of tasks), it would be ideal for engineers. In this view, it\u2019s different. Artificial intelligences and humans can complement each other in terms of redefining our comparative advantages,\u201d said Gr\u00fcnberg.<\/p>\n